collective.cover is a package that allows the creation of elaborate covers
for website homepages, especially for news portals, government sites and
intranets that require more resources than a simple page or collection can
offer. However, despite offering rich resources to build a cover,
collective.cover also provides a very easy mechanism for managing its
contents, built around a drag-and-drop interface.

collective.cover is based on Blocks and Tiles, like Deco, the new
layout composition system for Plone.

Suppose you are running The Planet, a news site that has a bunch of editors
focused on getting news on different topics, like Economy, Health or Sports.

If you are the main publisher of the site, you may want to delegate the
construction of the cover page of the Economy section to the people working on
that content area, but you might not want them messing around the Sports
section as well.

Also, suppose you have the final game of the World Cup and the match is going
to be defined on penalties: you may want to prepare a couple of cover pages
and publish the right one focused on the team that won in the end.

These are the kind of issues we want to solve with this package; we are still
far from it, but that is the idea.

Very old; the legacy code is so complex that is not maintainable anymore.
It has (arguably) the best user interface of all. Layouts can not be
created TTW. Viewlets are just page templates associated with content
types; you can drag&drop viewlets around the layout. Publishers love it.

Code is very old, but still maintained (at least works in Plone 4). Allows
to create complex layouts TTW and use any layout as a template. Easy to
extend and edit (but is terrible to find a content to use). Needs a lot of
memory to work and aggressive cache settings.

Allows the creation of layouts TTW but it has (arguably) the worst user
interface of all. It is easily extended and there are several add-ons
available that provide new functionality for it.

Home Page Editor of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies Site

Strongly based on Collage, this package was presented at the World
Plone Day 2012 Brasilia. It allows editing of home pages and the
definition of permissions on blocks of content. Available only for Plone 3
and not openly published… yet.

A new package that lets site editors add portlets to a set of new
locations: above and below page contents, portal top and footer. The
package comes with a number of flexible layouts that are used to position
the portlets, and locations can be fixed to the nearest site object, to
facilitate inheritance. In collective.cover (this package), we don’t
want to use portlets at all.

Show the type of a tile (Basic Tile, Collection Tile, etc.) in the
top center of the tile on the compose tab. This makes it easier for
the user to know how they can add content, especially if the user
does not have permission to view the layout tab.
[warpr]

Make the grid system flexible. The default is still a 16 column
Deco grid. You can register your own system as an IGridSystem
utility based on the Deco16Grid class with a different name and
select it in the configuration panel. You should create a grid that
matches the css of the theme that you are using on your site.
[warpr, maurits]

The reodering of list items is now immediately reflected in the DOM
(closes #351).
[href]

This release removes all upgrade steps from versions no longer supported.
If you are upgrading from a version previous to 1.0a5 you should upgrade
to 1.0a5 first and then you can upgrade to 1.0a6. This release also
completely removes the code from deprecated image and link tiles; if you
are still using image and link tiles do not upgrade until you have
manually replaced both tiles instances with the new banner tile (this was
supposed to be done on previous release but we did not had time to do it.)

Field order can now be set on tile configuration screen using drag-and-drop.
(closes #248).
[marcosfromero, cleberjsantos]

CSS improvements for list tile and content chooser. [agnogueira]

List tile is now configurable: you can set ordering and visibility for all
fields and you can also set the preferred style for the title and the scale
and alignment for the image thumbnail; the date of the items was also added
(fixes #339). [hvelarde]

This release includes a new banner tile that will replace image and link
tiles completely, as we found them redundant. Please replace manually any
instance of image and link tiles in your covers with banner tiles. Image
and link tiles will be completely removed on next release.

Add Finnish translation. [datakurre]

Add Italian translation. [gborelli]

Package documentation was updated. [hvelarde]

‘buttons.cancel’ in prepOverlay closeselector has to be in quotes to
avoid unrecognized expression javascript errors [ericof]

Add banner tile that will replace image and link tiles; add deprecation
warning to image and link tiles as they will be removed from package on
next release; an upgrade step is provided for unregistering them to
avoid further addition on covers. (closes #218). [hvelarde]

Better support for internal and external images (closes #188).
[jpgimenez]

Gallery tile now allows sorting of items easily through a widget created for
that purpose (closes #198). [Quimera]

A custom permission for the export layout functionality was added; exporting
a cover layout to the Plone registry is now an administrative task
accomplished only by Managers and Site Administrators (closes #177).
[Quimera]

Fix a bug in collection tile when the target collection was removed
(closes #138). [jpgimenez]

An option in the control panel configlet was added in order to select the
tiles that will be available for cover layout creation; an upgrade step
is provided to update the registry with the new record (closes #191).
[hvelarde]